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...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY... ...RY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HALL ..................................... 14 CHAPTER II RELA TES HOW FRANCIS, FOURTH VISCOUNT, ARRIVES A T CASTLEWOOD ............. ... poor George, who had taken the King’s side in our lamentable but glorious war of independence. Neither my father nor my mother ever wore powder in th... ...hing to put an end to this prosing. I don’t say No. I can’t but accept the world as I find it, including a rope’s end, as long as it is in fashion. CH... ...ing James the First; and being of a military disposition, remained long in Germany with the Elec- tor-Palatine, in whose service Sir Francis incurred ... ...es and Groom of the King’s Posset, which the two last Lords Castlewood had held so honorably, and which was now conferred upon a fellow of yesterday, ... ... a single word the perjured wretch said. My lord and lady were in a manner prisoners in their own house; so her ladyship gave the little page to know,...

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...Excerpt: William Makepeace Thackeray was born at Calcutta, July 18, 1811, the only child of Richmond and Anne Thackeray. He received the main part of his education at the Charterhouse, as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. To judge by quot...

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...h A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Miscellaneous Prose by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...eries Publication Miscellaneous Prose by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ..........................................1 3 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ............................................... 14 4 Miscella... ... common against all satirists, Thackeray had to bear with them. The social world he looked at did not show him heroes, only here and there a plain goo... ...ese careless trifles translated for them, and have been stung. We favoured Germany with them now and then, before Germany became the first power in Eu... ...ame capacity. I have been told here that, before leaving Bologna, Cialdini held a general council of the commanders of the seven divi- sions of which ... ...Pisicelli, whose family had left Naples in 1860 out of devotion to Francis II.; two Carraciolos, of the historical family from which sprung the unfort... ...ian lancers distinguished themselves very much, made some Austrian hussars prisoners, and killed a few more, amongst whom was an officer. The same sta...

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...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the u...

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...Contents NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS ...................................................................................................... 4 NOONDAY IN CHEPE .........................................................................................

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... Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...s as the untired Sun-God. He is Eros, the ever young. Dark, dark were this world of ours had either Divinity left it—dark without the day- beams of th... ...n the crowd. It was noon in Chepe. And George de Barnwell was alone. V ol. II. WE HA VE SELECTED the following episodical chapter in prefer- ence to a... ...and drained it with a health to the donors. How strange are the chances of war! But half an hour be- fore he and I were engaged in mortal combat, and ... ...t-end of Lanty Clancy’s musket knocked the sword up and broke the arm that held it. “Thonamoundiaoul nabochlish,” said the French officer, with a curs... ...role withdrawn from me, and to cause me to be sent to the English depot of prisoners at V erdun, the Marquis’s interest with the Emperor prevailed, an... ...he latter rushed into his arms, grown to be one of the finest young men in Germany: tall and exces- sively graceful in proportion, with the blush of h...